Baseball

head coach announced

Head coach James Grandey

James Grandey has been announced as the new head baseball coach and an assistant football
coach.

The Bluffton College department of athletics has announced that James Grandey has
been named head baseball coach and assistant football coach. Grandey comes to Bluffton
from Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, where he has served as an assistant football
and baseball coach for the past four seasons.

Grandey earned a bachelors and masters degree from Muskingum in 1999 and 2002, respectively,
and was a standout student-athlete while playing for the Muskies. As a senior he earned
first team All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors in both football and baseball and was
named first team All-Mideast Region in baseball, as well. Grandey's academic career
was just as impressive, as he earned Academic All-OAC honors as a sophomore, junior
and senior and was named first team GTE Academic All-American in baseball as a senior.

Grandey will join the coaching staff of new Bluffton head football coach Greg Brooks
in the fall and will take over the baseball program in the spring. Brooks was named
head football coach on March 11 following the retirement announcement of Carlin Carpenter,
who coached Bluffton to 103 wins from 1979-2002. Brooks was an assistant football
coach under Carpenter for 22 of those seasons and also won a school-record 276 games
as the head baseball coach from 1981-2002. Pitching coach Vince Wakefield served as
head coach of the Bluffton baseball squad this spring following Brooks' appointment
to director of football operations in January.